Quotes About Parenting

When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.

Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.

I think a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

If there's a negative interaction between my child and another child, what I want to know is, how was it handled, what lessons came out of it and of course, is my child okay?

That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

But I am weirdly healthy, so I don't beat myself up about it—it wouldn't help, and I don't want to pass that on to my girls.

As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school they will be safe from predators, crime and violence.

I think my mom did everything pretty close to perfect, and I want to be the cool mom that the kids run home to.

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.

Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

She's as plastic as you are. If you ever have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisher-Price stamped on their butts.

Mummy's coming home late tonight. It'll be just we guys, so we can get drunk and watch porn.

She's as plastic as you are! I'm telling you, it's a bad idea. If the two of you have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisherprice stamped on their butts!

Eventually Theo would pick up their daughter, kiss the top of her head, and carry her to an old spruce stump. He'd crouch down, gather up the beach glass that was still scattered there, and whisper in her ear. "Let's build a fairy house.